Circuit

If you want to know what it's like to be a "Circuit Boy" in the new millenium, then this film is for you. It pretty much gets everything on the money from the drug abuse to pretty boys staring at themselves... Full review

If you want to know what it's like to be a "Circuit Boy" in the new millenium, then this film is for you. It pretty much gets everything on the money from the drug abuse to pretty boys staring at themselves... Full review

I saw this movie with a title "Party Boys". For me, it was NOT about some circuit in L.A., or wherever. It reminded me of the feelings I had - in my party times - every weekend - in the middle... Full review

I was only looking for a contrversial film, but what I got was nothing short of a masterpiece. Put all superfiiality aside and this film will tell you tales of passion, desire and its wiles, and the philosophical importance of "the... Full review

This film says it like it is and does it in a dramatic and visual style that is hard to turn away from. The acting is right on and very well done. The subject matter is caught from an insiders perspective... Full review

I was only looking for a contrversial film, but what I got was nothing short of a masterpiece. Put all superfiiality aside and this film will tell you tales of passion, desire and its wiles, and the philosophical importance of "the... Full review

CIRCUIT Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Sound format: Mono A gay police officer (Jonathan Wade Drahos) is outed at work and subsequently relocates to LA where he becomes involved in the 'circuit party' lifestyle and is almost destroyed by its worst excesses... Filmed... Full review

Dirk Shafer, Playgirl's man of the year a few years back has put together a little bit of heaven & hell in this nugget of gay club-life in the city of angels. Although the acting is only mediocre, the direction, script,... Full review

I was very anxious about seeing this movie for all the wrong reasons--the excitement of the circuit scene, incredibly good-looking guys, a film about my community, and a chance to experience something unique. But after I got into the first 30... Full review

I guess you had to be there, and I was. Most people will not have enough or the wrong kind of baggage to understand this movie. Its a chronicle of a lifestyle, and if you are on the outside looking in... Full review

though supporting work by Nancy Allen, William Katt and a few other professionals is solid.....Circuit," his current release, is an extreme departure from that milieu..... ... Full Review

The movie succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture....Circuit" plods along with banal nightclub sequences that are supposed to be glorious....Yet Drahos and Khabbazi are good actors....A romance on the circuit-party scene would suffer from a certain lack of dramatic tension..... ... Full Review

Party's over before it starts in unbearable 'Circuit' There's one reference to someone being HIV-positive, another issue dismissed, until the last few minutes when "Circuit," which already has reveled itself to death, turns into a faux cautionary tale right out of the 50s. ... Full Review

Though it's not a good film, the honest truth is that Circuit could have been awful. It doesn't help that Circuit 's main character is also one of the dullest. It's an empty lifestyle Shafer is portraying, and the characters are similarly vacuous. ... Full Review

It doesn't help that Circuit 's main character is also one of the dullest. Though it's not a good film, the honest truth is that Circuit could have been awful. It's an empty lifestyle Shafer is portraying, and the characters are similarly vacuous. ... Full Review

Dirk Shafer's two-hour exercise in Hard Nipples Cinema careens down the narcissistic, drug-drenched fast lane of gay, color-themed circuit parties with pit stops at numerous lurid gatherings of Nautilus-enhanced beefcakes. ... Full Article

CIRCUIT: Drama. Starring Jonathan Wade Drahos and Andre Khabbazi. Directed by Dirk Shafer. (Not rated. 120 minutes. At the Castro.) All the same, if anyone wants to watch naked men in the shower, naked men doing erotic dancing, naked men... ... Full Article

ith all the inter-office beatdowns and lonely nights at home, it's terrible being an openly gay police officer in rural America. It only makes sense then that John (Jonathan Wade Drahos) would make his way to West Hollywood, where a... ... Full Article

This Circuit is Dead A Review by John Nesbit 04/26/2002 Unless playing in an urban area with a large indiscriminant movie going gay community Circuit is destined for a very short run. ... Full Article

A man hoping to move out of the closet falls into a trap of drug-fueled hedonism in this cautionary drama. John (Jonathan Wade Drahos) is a police officer from a small town who is forced to leave his career behind... ... Full Article

This budget-conscious drama, set amid the throbbing, drug-fueled subculture of West Hollywood and its traveling "circuit" parties, is awfully well-intentioned and earnest. Writer-director Shafer (the star and subject of 1995's mock-doc Man of the Year, about his reign as a... ... Full Article